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This newborn baby project, Sydney Rose, was shot in a private home. But this story did not start there. In 1993 I got a call from a woman that told me her child wanted to model and the child was 5 years old, (or 6 or 7, I don't remember). At the time I was shooting a lot of stock photography and children were a big part of this for me. My first shoot with the mother of this baby was in Piedmont park in Atlanta, GA on November 12th, 1993

While planning my way to Zingst, Germany, I decided to fly into and spend 2 days in Berlin as I have never been there and I really wanted a couple of days to get over the major part of Jet Lag. The first day was spent wandering around the Nollendorf square (Nollendorfplatz) area as I was unable to sleep due to an air raid siren in the form of a 1 year old child 2 seats away crying, screaming and making a fuss the entire 9 hour flight to Paris. Normally I can tune this out but not this time. So after arriving at the hotel I was hoping to be able to stay awake until at least 10 pm. However by 7 pm I was asleep as I could not function as I had been up for 25 hours plus dealing with the dyhydration that occurs when flying, even drinking a lot of water on the flight, I was out.

Of course I then wake up at 2 am Berlin time as I normally only sleep 5-6 hours per night. So I got my laptop out and worked on files I shot the first day until breakfast was served. After I grabbed my camera bag and left.

I wanted to see the Berlin Wall, or what I should say what is left of it. I looked on the map and found the metro station close to the Wall was the Silesian Gate metro station (U-Bhf Schlesisches Tor). Then a short walk to get to the Wall. When crossing the Oberbaum Bridge (Oberbaumbrücke) I noticed the railing and liked the design. Upon a closer look I decided that it was likely lighted at night and I wanted to return to shoot it at dusk. So I returned early because I liked the metro stations and I wanted to shoot parts of them too.

The first metro station is Nollendorf square (Nollendorfplatz) and 7 stops away is the U-Bhf Schlesisches Tor station which is a really cool structure. So I shot video on the Schlesisches Tor station on the elevated paltform and down at street level before walking to the Oberbaum Bridge (Oberbaumbrücke) to wait until the lights were turned on.

For a sense of scale, the famous TV tower is 2 miles (3.25 KM) from the bridge.

This multimedia personal project is a light and shadow study of a date palm's stripped fruit cluster. On some of the video you can see where the dates were attached before being picked. The easiest is in the opening image, on the left, all of the round "buds" are where a date was growing.

I was just outside of Palm Springs, California on a portrait project, shooting both still images as well as video, and one of the locations I used was in a date palm grove. After shooting Ronnie King (a multi Platinum, Oscar and Grammy nominated producer) in his recording studio, we loaded the required gear into the car and drove to the location, the sun was about 30 minutes away from dropping behind a mountain. We got the gear out of the rental car and set up quickly. In addition, Ronnie's publicist wanted three changes of wardrobe, meaning everyone had to hurry.

After the session was over the crew & I dissembled the gear and packed up. After everything was packed and in the car, I performed my "Idiot Check", this is a phrase I use that means after everyone thinks they have packed everything, someone, or several some ones, will walk everywhere we were to be sure we did not leave anything by mistake, this includes any cans or paper we dropped.

When we first arrived I was totally focused on setting up, balancing the sunlight with the strobe light, getting Ronnie on his spot, shooting images quickly and making the necessary wardrobe changes. So I did not have any extra time to do any "sight seeing". On my walk looking for forgotten equipment, I noticed this palm fruit stalk laying on the ground and thought it really looked very cool, so I picked it up, put it into the car and brought it back to LA that night. I had shot a project for a boot manufacturer a few days before and I had an empty boot box left over, so I put the stripped fruit stalk into the box, which went into the suitcase and home it went.

Last thoughts: This was a really fun project. The stalk has interesting shapes and texture. Constructing the holding apparatus allowed this project to be possible in letting me change angles and direction very quickly.

I am very glad in the pandemonium of the set up, the shoot and the pack up process, this stalk was not stepped on!

All of these images were taken around 5 PM in mid July. I had left Denver, Colorado on my way to a ranch just outside Woodward, Oklahoma to shoot with Bobbie, a cowgirl I had met 5 years previous & could never get my travel plans to get back to Woodward at a proper time of day to shoot with her. So while passing through Minneola, Kansas I noticed 3 old grain elevators off to my left. I thought I really would like to shoot them but it was getting late plus I had another 2 hours driving time before I got to Woodward. Knowing I wanted to scout at Bobbie's a while to locate the right spot to work and then get Bobbie & me back on site and still have time to shoot, I decided to press on.

I had driven past the elevators & I knew that I would not be real happy if I did not stop & shoot. So I turned the car around & grabbed a camera & shot 170+ photos on 2 of the 3 old elevators for 17.5 furious minutes - literally running from one spot to the next. These images are of the structure I found to be the most interesting, Bunge, Gano Grain Division.

2 years later I went back to shoot some more... and they are all gone, bulldozed & hauled off. I am really glad I stopped when I did.

The Eiffel Tower is an icon of Western civilization and is instantly recognizable in most of the world. I was in Paris in late January for a fashion & beauty project and at night, Emiliano, my European assistant & I set out to "Play"! The small twinkling lights on the tower start "Twinkling" at night on the hour and last 5 minutes, so you have to find where you want to be and be set up & ready to go. Then you have another 55 minutes to find another spot and shoot, then another. In the middle we ducked into a cafe for coffee or tea and to warm ourselves up. We shot for 4 nights in the cold, wind and rain and got some cool imagery for our efforts. Even though I have lived in Paris 3 different times, I never tire of being there.

This series of Aviation imagery, stills and video, was shot over 2 different days, both in late afternoon. The still images not taken in the water, were shot inside the hangar with the aircraft positioned just out of the direct sunlight, allowing Steve to use the sky as a giant soft light source. When the sun started to get too close, Steve just pushed the plane back into the hangar a bit.

"Stazione Centrale" (Central Station) is the main international train station in the heart of Milan, to me it is a stunning architectural structure and is a juxtaposition in that it is mostly masculine in showing massive strength but parts of it are feminine in the curves and arches of it's steel skeleton.

I was invited by the organizers of the photo festival to teach about light and the use and and control of the same to 2 groups of photographers, amateur as well as professional over 2 days. What I shot was part of the opening of this event. I was invited to Oberstdorf, which is the southernmost point of Germany, in September of 2013, as part of a meeting and get to know each other. I also took photos of another event where they bring the cows off of the high mountain pastures to separate the cows to go with their owners to their winter quarters, the barn. The photos here were from the event that was in June 2014 and was very warm that day, unusually warm for Germany, 95° (35° C). At the top of the mountain it was about 65°-70° (18°-21°), so delightful.

I was in Phoenix for a project in late February and had an "extra" day before flying back to Atlanta. On this day it started out a rainy and dreary day and I had planned to stay in the hotel room to work on the imagery I had shot for my client the day I arrived and the next day, which I did start on. Mid morning I checked the weather, something as an image maker I do out of habit, and noticed the forecast had changed from the night before and it looked like in the late afternoon I would have a 2 hour window of no rain with a chance of the clouds thinning to what might be a stunning sunset. So I stopped working on my client's project, packed the gear I would want and piled it by the door then went back working on my client project. In the afternoon I moved the gear into the rental car and drove to the location.

This is a video made from thousands of still photos, something called "Timelapse" where you attach a still camera onto a tripod and then shoot photos over a set amount of time, like one a second or one every 10 seconds etc. After you shoot the photos you make an image sequence and drop that into a video editing application.

This personal project was shot on two different days. I hopped onto a bus in Maiori, Italy, on the Amalfi Coast, to meet my business partner in Salerno, Italy. Just inside the city limits of Salerno, I briefly saw this old boat out of the bus window. I got off the bus, picked up the rental car, went to some meetings and on the way back to the hotel, in Maiori, drove into the port, by now it was very late in the day, about 8:00 p.m. (20:00). In driving to the boat there was a gate and it looked like it was locked. I got out of the car and saw the lock was closed, but the chain was not locked. So I unwrapped the chain & lock then opened the gate. I then was able to drive close to the boat. I jumped out of the car, & furiously shot 100+ images in 9 minutes, then the light was gone. I closed the gate, re-wrapped the chain and drove back to Maiori. 2 days later I drove back to Salerno in the morning & shot 300+ images in about 25 minutes.

This windmill video is a collection of clips shot outside of Ft Supply, Oklahoma, on a cold January day starting at predawn to just after sunrise.

This project was shot in about 2 hours in the Princeton area of South Miami, Florida. I was on my way to a shoot in the keys, when I saw this location. A couple of days later I drove back & shot 200+ images. I knew this was going to be pretty cool but not until I thought to show what can be done with color images then converting them to B&W did I realize the full potential.

This project was shot in about 2 hours in the Princeton area of South Miami, Florida. I was on my way to a shoot in the keys, when I saw this location. A couple of days later I drove back & shot 200+ images. I knew this was going to be pretty cool but not until I thought to show what can be done with color images then converting them to B&W did I realize the full potential.

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